sc meant,
in Anglo-Saxon, indifferently "ash-tree," or "spear"; and the same is,
or has been, true of the French fresne and the Greek melia. The root of
oesc appears in the Sanskrit as, "to throw" or "lance," whence asa, "a
bow," and asana, "an arrow." See Pictet, Origines Indo-Europeennes, I.
222.]

[Footnote 49: Compare Spenser's story of Sir Guyon, in the "Faery
Queen," where, however, the knight fares better than this poor priest.
Usually these lightning-caverns were like Ixion's treasure-house, into
which none might look and live. This conception is the foundation of
part of the story of Blue-Beard and of the Arabian tale of the third
one-eyed Calender]

[Footnote 50: Cox, Mythology of the Aryan Nations, Vol. 1. p. 161.]

[Footnote 51: Kelly, Indo-European Folk-Lore, pp. 147, 183, 186, 193.]

[Footnote 52: Brinton, Myths of the New World, p. 151.]

[Footnote 53: Callaway, Zulu Nursery Tales, I. 173, Note 12.]

[Footnote 54: Tylor, Early History of Mankind, p. 238; Primitive
Culture, Vol. II. p. 254; Darwin, Naturalist's Voyage, p. 409.]

[Footnote 55: The production of fire by the drill is often called
churning, e. g. "He took the uvati [chark], and sat down and churned it,
and kindled a fire." Callaway, Zulu Nursery Tales, I. 174.]

[Footnote 56: Kelly, Indo-European Folk-Lore, p. 39. Burnouf, Bhagavata
Purana, VIII. 6, 32.]

[Footnote 57: Baring-Gould, Curious Myths, p. 149.]

[Footnote 58: It is also the regenerating water of baptism, and the
"holy water" of the Roman Catholic.]

[Footnote 59: In the Vedas the rain-god Soma, originally the
personification of the sacrificial ambrosia, is the deity who imparts to
men life, knowledge, and happiness. See Breal, Hercule et Cacus, p. 85.
Tylor, Primitive Culture, Vol. II. p. 277.]

[Footnote 60: We may, perhaps, see here the reason for making the Greek
fire-god Hephaistos the husband of Aphrodite.]

[Footnote 61: "Our country maidens are well aware that triple leaves
plucked at hazard from the common ash are worn in the breast, for the
purpose of causing prophetic dreams respecting a dilatory lover.
The leaves of the yellow trefoil are supposed to possess similar
virtues."--Harland and Wilkinson, Lancashire Folk-Lore, p. 20.]

[Footnote 62: In Peru, a mighty and far-worshipped deity was Catequil,
the thunder-god,.... "he who in thunder-flash and clap hurls from his
sling the small, round, smooth thunder-stones, treasured in the villages
as fire-fetish